The Lutge Family in Australia

The mystery of the missing birth registrations for the children of Peter and Mary Lutge remains!  More time is scheduled at the Mitchell Library to continue searching for microfilm of baptism records for St Mary's Cathedral.  At least I've narrowed the search to Catholic Church records..... Again, I'm basing the birth date of Hannah Maria, the fifth child of Peter Benson and Mary, on the information on her parents' death registrations.  Hannah Maria was born in about 1872 - two years after her brother Peter Benson.  Hannah would have been born in The Rock, Sydney as her parents were living there at this time.  She would have moved with her family to Mosman in the 1880s. In 1891, Hannah married Charles Henry Ford in Sydney.  Charles was born about 1873 in Middlesbrough, England and arrived in Australia in the late 1800s.   Hannah and Charles were living on the lower North Shore of Sydney until the 1920s.  They are shown as living ...